April 11, 2007
Bento!
So yesterday, for dinner, I packed up a bento box. I've been trying to take lots of food with me to gaming, since that seems like the most dangerous snack time. I'm thinking of my food as a sort of preemptive counter assault. Something like that anyway.
The bento I made yesterday had rice balls stuffed with miso tuna, grapes, some tasty Havarti cheese, and a weight watcher's 1pt bar (it's hiding under the cheese). I also brought a strawberry smoothie (in a rather inglorious plastic tub since I don't have a good thermos right now) to drink.
The rice balls were amusing to make. I followed the cooking cute tutorial and the filling was just a can of tuna with a table spoon of miracle whip and a table spoon of shiro miso paste. I'm not sure the miso added much. I haven't been able to find sources for any other kinds of miso though, so I guess that's what I've got for now. I used nori to make "grips" for the rice balls, although I didn't do a very good job. Hopefully next time I'll do a slightly better job of that.
Note: Since I figured other folks on Weight Watchers might be interested, I thought I'd add in information with the point values of my bento. The stuffed rice balls are 2 points each (so 4 points for both), the cheese is 2 points worth, the one point bar is one point (:P), and the grapes are a 1/2 cup, so 1/2 point. So over all it's 7.5 points worth of bento. I've been able to plan bento from about six points up to about ten, so you've got some options, even in such a little box. ;)
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